TY - JOUR T1 - Financial incentives and quality improvement JF - Quality and Safety in Health Care JO - Qual Saf Health Care SP - 227 LP - 227 VL - 14 IS - 3 AU - A Rashidian AU - N Black AU - I Russell Y1 - 2005/06/01 UR - http://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/14/3/227.1.abstract N2 - We share Marshall and Harrison’s caution on over-reliance on financial incentives for improving quality of care manifested in the new UK general practice contract.1 Financial incentives do not always result in behaviour change as intended for reasons that are not well understood. We argue that “the fascination with financial incentives” is not “based on sound empirical evidence”. In recent years at least three systematic reviews on the impact of financial incentives on provider behaviour have been published.2– … ER -